This, by the way, is why the folks that bought the iPhone are on the hook. The "finder" made no attempt to locate the actual owner, and instead sold it to that Web site for $5000. In other words, technically stolen property. The Web site knew or should have known, as reasonable people, that it was technically "stolen". They paid $5000 for it. Certainly not the act of a legitimate "news organization".

when there are no greater activist judges than conservatives

hey scotus: thanks for your january 2010 ruling, allowing corporate spending in election cycles, just in time for the november 2010 election cycle. that's really "constitutionally conservative" of you. way to champion democratic notions over crass financial manipulation assholes. with that vote scotus, and especially that conservative knuckle dragger scalia, earned my eternal burning hatred for being huge hypocrites on constituional principles, being morally bankrupt, and being politically compromised

Indeed, that prefix really makes no sense. To quote Ted Nelson:

"Cyber-" is from the Greek root for "steersman" (kybernetikos). Norbert Wiener coined the term "cybernetics" for anything which used feedback to correct things, in the way that you continually steer to left or right to correct the direction of a bicycle or a car. So "cybernetics" really refers to control linkages, the way things are connected to control things.

Because he was writing in the nineteen-forties, and all of this was new, Wiener believed that computers would be principally used for control linkages-- which is if course one area of their use.

But the term "cybernetics" has caused hopeless confusion, as it was used by the uninformed to refer to every area of computers. And people would coin silly words beginning with "cyber-" to expand ideas they did not understand. Words like "cyberware", "cyberculture", "cyberlife" hardly mean anything. In general, then, words beginning with "cyber-" mean "either I do not know what I am talking about, or I am trying to fool and confuse you" (as in my suggested cybercrud).

Haven't the Mythbusters proven again and again that operating a vehicle from 'non standard' driving perspectives is quite difficult?

Everything is difficult if you haven't practiced it. Once you do practice, I'd imagine it would be almost as easy as driving normally - almost, because you aren't getting inner ear feedback from the exact movement of the car.

People use remotely controlled vehicles all the time.

Interweb is just a common colloquialism for the internet, it doesn't excuse any logical fallacies in the sentence. I quite often communicate perfectly legitimate sentiments to my friends using lolcat style language.

1. Congress does not prosecute companies and if you RTFA you would see that there was actually a pretty harsh law on the books.

2. Those people who should be leveling the punishment were essentially left with only the nuclear option due to this harsh law. If Pfizer was found guilty, they were officially done.